"Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us."

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Source : Brent Weeks (2009). “Shadow's Edge: Book 2 of the Night Angel”, p.89, Hachette UK

Brent Weeks

#Dream Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Abiding Quotes

“Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.”
“I pray that my heart can continue to open and expand so I can fully receive love and not waste a drop of it!”
“You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.”
“In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.”
“The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.”
“There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Nik Kershaw, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.
“It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.”
“Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.”

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